The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-02-23

been sold for only 81 200. 60 Our towns
man, DIR. William Bass, now one of the
leading physicians Of Lowell, Mass, has
recently been made member of the British
Medical Socety-a consequence, perhaps,
of his stay in England last summer. -
The concert at the town hall on Tuesday
evening of last week was fully attended and
greatly enjoyed. Prominent among the
helpers from abroad were Miss Kendall of
Goddard Seminary, Mr.. and Mrs. William
Perry, Mr.. ed" Glidden and Miss Lettie
Brown of Barre; Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Newcomb and Miss Abbie NewComb of
Waitsfeld and Messrs. Edison of Ran
dolph and Dyer of East Brookfeld For
this entertainment we are perhaps chiefly
indebted to Professor Willis II. Gale. 80
Rev. and Mrs. II. ". Miller last week
had visit from their only son, who resides
in Boston. 60 An out-of-town farmer re-
Gently complained to us of the trouble there
is at present in selling hay. Said he; off
there is known to be man in Barre who
wants to buy hay there are half dozen
men after him to sell to him." He added
that he thought there were two hundred
tons of hay in his vicinity which farmers
wanted to sell - Mr. Henry Lazelle
has been working of late for John Trow
of Barre, who is receiving horses by
the carload from the West. - Mrs.
Milo Stebbins, after spending several
months in or about Erie, Pa, is visiting
relatives in Wisconsin. - Miss Julia
Bass is visiting friends near Boston, Mass
80 Sumner Wheatley takes an honest
pride in a colt eight months old that weighs
six hundred pounds. - Eliot Watson
last week closed his winter term of teach
ing the village school and is about to take
his last course of medical lectures. -
Professor Willis II. Gale left for his home in
Norfolk, Neb., last Monday. - Mr.. and
Mrs. Harry Fogg have returned home, after
an absence of several months in Chelsea.
- Mrs. Orcutt Abbott and daughter go
this week, we believe, to Ticonderoga, N.
Y. They will later on visit friends in
Oneida, n. Y and return to their old home
here early in the summer. A welcome will
await them here surely. - The dairy
maids supper at the town hall last Friday
evening owing to the severe storm, was not
as well attended as hoped for. The enter
tainment is said to have been very pleas
ant one and will be repeated on Friday
evening of this week, with some change of
programme. There will likely be good
! house, everything favoring it. - Horace
! Farnham was recently so unfortunate as to
be tipped over while driving a colt. A fine
new sleigh came out of the affair badly
! damaged. - Perhaps the only thing out
of the common course of events in conuec-
| ton with the coming March meeting, as in.
Dictated by the warning, will be the discus
sion of instructions to the railroad com.
mssioners as to the bonds to be issued by
the town for building the road from Barre
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hardly an example, however worthy, bu
will be caricatured. That of Elihu Bur
rift, " the learned blacksmith" and many
another like him who has picked up price
less nuggets of wisdom while at daily
drudgery, finds its ludicrous representation
under the humorist's pen-for instance, a.
Studying algebra, in early life, on the bach
of kicking mule" Nevertheless, many
toiler can yet testify to the value OF oppor
tunities for improvement in what seem tn,
unlkeliest places. In the kitchen of one o
the busiest housewives of our acquaintanc,
is pinned to the wall one of the many rail
road maps to be had at most depots for til,
taking of them. (This particular map adj
vertises the southern through route to Cali
fornia) Recently this good housewife wa
telling us how much pleasant and profitable
information she was getting by the glance
she could now and again cast at this ma
while at her work-information that sh
would perhaps get only in some such way
This example seems so commendable to Il
and easy of following that we gladly max
an item of it for the benefit of similar toilers
- George Webster son of Rev. Harve
Webster, who has been living in Below
Falls, is to begin work this week in tn
store of George j. Town of Barre. -
nephew of Mrs. Ophir S. Martin, residen
of Ottawa, Canada, is visiting in tow
- Howard Winchester will carry o
Mrs. Silas Bohonon's farm the coming yea
- Captain Lemuel Abbott, u. S. A
who recently came to Barre to bury hi
mother, has been visiting friends in town.